Assessment of the Reporting Quality of RCTs for Hip Arthroscopy in Femoroacetabular Impingement Published from 2008 to 2018

^1,2Georgios Paraskevas Chalatsis MD, MSc, ²Athanasios S. Siouras BSc, MSc, ^2,3Ioannis Nikolaos Liampas MD, MSc

 ¹University Hospital of Larisa, Department of Orthopaedics

²University of Thessaly, Biostatistics and Clinical Bioinformatics

³University Hospital of Larisa, Department of Neurology

Corresponding author: Georgios Paraskevas Chalatsis, MD, MSc, University Hospital of Larisa, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Thessaly, Biostatistics and Clinical Bioinformatics; email: ghalatsis@hotmail.com

Citation: Chalatsis GP, et al. (2020) Assessment of the Reporting Quality of RCTs for Hip Arthroscopy in Femoroacetabular Impingement Published from 2008 to 2018. Med Healthcare Rep, 2(2),1-6.

Copyright: Â© 2020, Chalatsis GP, This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Femoroacetabular impingement syndrome is an important cause of hip pain in young adults. It is characterized by excess contact between the femoral neck and head and the anterior rim of the acetabulum.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess the reporting quality of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) for Hip Arthroscopy effectiveness, in Femoroacetabular Impingement, compared to other therapeutic methods.

Methods: Electronic databases of MEDLINE (Pub Med), Cohrane Library, Science Direct, Google scholar and United States Clinical trials registration from 2008 until today. From 16 scientific papers, 5 were selected as appropriate for the study. For the assessment of the randomized controlled trials the CONSORT Checklist was used assessing the report of the 37 key terms.

Results: One study was not reporting results yet but in the rest of the sections complied with the checklist in 21 out of the 25 items. Two out of five of the trials achieved moderate score (21/37 and 20/37) and two trials achieved high scores (31/37 and 30/37).

Conclusions: Although there are limited RCTs, that compare hip arthroscopy to other treatments for FAI, the results based the CONSORT checklist have been more than adequate indicating moderate to high compliancy.

KEYWORDS: Femoroacetabular, Impingement, Arthroscopy, Hip, Randomized, Trial

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